Plant trade has come a long way in recent decades, but it still poses certain challenges and risks. Countries in Europe and Central Asia learned about a cutting-edge tool today, the ePhyto Solution – an electronic system for phytosanitary certification that makes trade between countries safer, faster, and cheaper. The ePhyto system...

While on average urban residents are less likely to go hungry than rural residents, a large proportion of the urban poor suffer from food insecurity and malnutrition. This is closely linked to low and irregular earnings, combined with inadequate housing and infrastructure, limited access to basic services and exposure to environmental...

La agricultura familiar representa más del 80% de las explotaciones agrícolas en América Latina y el Caribe, llegando a ocupar entre el 12 y el 67% de la superficie agropecuaria. Así también, es la encargada de producir más del 70% de los alimentos en la región (FAO, 2014). La reseña...

During the implementation of the Nutrition in Mountain Agroecosystems (NMA) project in Ecuador, together with our partner Heifer Ecuador, we heard and collected several stories from the participants from the project’s Capacity Development Program. NMA seeks to connect the concepts of agroecology and market trends with the reality of farmers. Each participant has the...

La salida de la crisis sanitaria, económica y social causada por la pandemia de Covid-19 es una oportunidad para transformar el modelo de desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe y construir sistemas agroalimentarios resilientes ante futuros riesgos.  Así lo sostiene la novena edición del informe Perspectivas de la Agricultura y del Desarrollo...

In a world where the number of people affected by hunger has been slowly rising since 2014, and tonnes of edible food are lost and/or wasted every day, curbing food loss and waste is essential. Food loss and waste also put unnecessary pressure on the environment, resulting in natural resource...

During the last decades, soil organic carbon (SOC) attracted the attention of a much wider array of specialists beyond agriculture and soil science, as it was proven to be one of the most crucial components of the earth’s climate system, which has a great potential to be managed by humans....

La agricultura urbana y periurbana ha mostrado resultados positivos en la mitigación de la inseguridad alimentaria en los espacios urbanos, no obstante, es un proceso que requiere apoyo económico y técnico con la finalidad de optimizar resultados, y que los mismos sean apropiados por la población. En Colombia actualmente no...

Maria Tekülve, the Deputy Head of Division and Focal Point for Rural Development and Agroecology at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) reflects on the role of agroecological approaches in international cooperation in an interview with Silvia Richter for the International Journal for Rural Development. The material reflects Maria Tekülve's personal opinion. ''A significantly...

There is a growing attention for agroecology in debates around urban food strategies and policies. Already for several years, this is considered a promising policy area, and agroecology was even already mentioned in the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact signed in 2016 as one of the relevant approaches within policies for food...

El mapeo de las iniciativas de agricultura familiar es una herramienta que busca entregar una visión completa sobre panorama de cada país de América Latina y el Caribe. Este resumen presenta una categorización de las distintas leyes que se implementaron e implementaran.

This course is part of a series of three e-learning courses on Sustainable Food Systems (SFS), designed to equip you with the knowledge and tools required to apply systems thinking to complex food systems challenges in an integrated manner. The course series highlights how systems thinking, and taking a sustainable food systems approach, can help...

In collaboration with the Group of Friends on Action on Conflict and Hunger, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) convened a virtual high-level event on action in support of preventing and...

This report, elaborated in the frame of EU-funded LIFE project OREKA MENDIAN (2016-2022), focuses on how human activities can support sustainable management of mountain grasslands in Europe. Today, more than 75% of the grassland area in the EU-28 is considered to have an unfavourable conservation status. The widely negative picture of...

Linda came to Alaska in 1982 after her first year of college with a love of wilderness and vague ideas of earning money for college by working on commercial fishing boats. She landed her first job when a deckhand failed to show up after a night of drinking, and the...

This report examines data available prior to the Covid-19 pandemic that affected the region and the world in 2020. By 2019, the Arab Region was already off track to achieve  hunger and nutrition-related SDG targets by 2030. In fact, after good progress during past decades, since 2015-17 the number of undernourished...

El 8 de junio de 2021 a las 9 AM (GMT-3) se realizará el Webinar "Agroecología y Políticas Públicas. Entre lo deseable y lo posible". El webinar tiene como objetivo analizar la importancia de las políticas públicas para lograr un escalamiento o mayor difusión de la agroecología a nivel mundial,...

The main aim of the research was to attempt to better understand agripreneurship and agripreneurs’ characteristics in small-scale farming in Iraq. This involved researching the small-scale farm as an enterprise as well as focusing on a common farm enterprise: agricultural mechanization hire service enterprises. The nature of the research taken...

Conozcan el emprendimiento de Danilo Mondaca, miembro de la Mesa de Jóvenes Rurales de la Región Metropolitana de Santiago. Este Video fue realizado por la Seremi de Agricultura de la Región Metropolitana.

Los cítricos, y en general las plantas, sufren de estrés hídrico a causa de la baja disponibilidad de agua, lo que repercute en un desarrollo pobre de la plantación, influye de manera significativa en la etapa de llenado del fruto, y afecta el rendimiento y la calidad. La falta de agua...